I’m bad in writing diaries or blogs. That’s why I decided to make small remarks of my life and surroundings through sounds: simple “snapshot” recordings, some more prepared recordings, maybe something manipulated… sounds that are interesting in a way or another. I’ll try to post something every month, so let’s start. A sure sign of Autumn is not only the colourful…

Kallio Upper Secondary School – a high school in Helsinki with special task for performing arts, media and creativing writing – is currently showing Fame the musical. The venue for the show is school’s own main hall, which has been upgraded with new electric, lighting, sound and mechanic systems. Even though there have already been many different productions…

Task: Travel around Southern Finland on bicycles. Interview passers-by with a same core question for everyone. Record the interviews and publish them on a blog. Doesn’t sound technically too demanding. Except when you are using an iPad. The Apple philosophy to make things simple leads to making them very complex.

Those chosen ones with golden ears don’t obviously need any audio spectrum or frequency analysers, but for a rusty-eared guy like me an RTA running on my smartphone is handy. When hunting down feedback frequencies it helps to have a pocket-sized analyser with you. For that you don’t even need a measurement microphone; the built-in microphone is usually enough. Etani RTA…